Druid announces new production about poet Eavan Boland, edited by Colm TóibínApril 11, 2021A new Druid theatrical production, Boland: Journey of a Poet, will be live streamed from The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid’s home in Galway, Ireland, from Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 April. With words by Eavan Boland, edited by Colm Tóibín and directed by Garry Hynes, Boland: Journey of a Poet explores the mind of the late, great poet Eavan Boland.
BWW Review: ONCE UPON A BRIDGEFebruary 16, 2021Sonya Kelly’s touching and kinetic Once Upon a Bridge imagines the lives of three protagonists in the leadup and aftermath of a near-tragedy on London’s Putney Bridge in 2017.
BWW Review: CITYSONG: Dublin's Urban HymnJuly 27, 2019Through the lens of three generations of a Dublin family, Dylan Coburn Gray's ambitious Citysong unfolds on a single day – but ricochets between past and present – to track the momentous and the minute changes in the lives of its characters who are, ultimately, just “a pinch in the hourglass” of the city's tapestry
BWW Review: Falling Faintly on the EPIPHANYJuly 20, 2019As a dinner party haunted by absences draws to a close, Morkan, the evening's irrepressible host, stumbles to a confession. “It's just that life has felt so wobbly,” she says, pointedly avoiding eye contact with any of her guests. “I feel dislocated...exiled...and I'm not sure why... and maybe that's the world”.
Swan Lake/Loch na nEala to Embark on Extensive tour of North AmericaJune 25, 2019Irish dance company Teac DamsaHouse of Dance has just announced that its production of Swan Lake (or in the Irish language translation, Loch na hEala) will embark on an extensive US and Canada tour, opening the Next Wave Festival 2019 at BAM, New York, before touring to Minneapolis, Ottawa, Los Angeles, Michigan, and North Carolina for six weeks.
BWW Review: Upholstering and Redecorating The FURNITUREJuly 20, 2018'Furniture is not sentimental,' offers George, despairing at his difficulty in bequeathing his beloved chaise longue to a willing beneficiary, near the close of Sonya Kelly's scintillating new play Furniture. 'You can love it, but it won't remember who you are.'
BWW Review: Surviving The CRESTFALLJuly 22, 2017In a dystopian landscape charged with searing verbal aggression, sustained horror, and gratuitous violence, Crestfall unfolds on the day when the lives of Olive, Alison, and Tilly fatefully intersect.